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hamlet

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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject: Crass Album Record Release Party Mercury Lounge NYC 1/30/08 |
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Un Succes fou! The place was so jammed you couldn't move. When I got there , early, someone already had a copy of the vinyl under his arm. It's beautiful, all white with floral border, so unlike the stark, dark Crass albums. 500 copies were pressed. The event was so lively and interesting it seemed to go by in five minutes though it was a long set. A young Asian girls smiled at me and said, "I really enjoy your son's music." I said, I'm not his mother, realizing I seemed to be the only one from my generation there. Jeff said his mother was "somewhere around. Crass member Joie de Vivre showed up to read a sonnet. I wasn't allowed to shoot video and was too far away to get great photos but I have some and here's the set list, Crass covers, Jeff's originals and Jack's songs. John Kessel joined in too.
1. Ramen
2.Banned from the Roxy
3.I Ain"t Thick
4. History of Communism with John Kessel (China? I forget) (low budget video)
5.Systematic Death
6.End Result
8. Sonnet read by Crass member Joie de Vivre
9. Fun in the Oven ( by Joie de Vivre)
10. Big A , Little A
11. I Saw a Hippy girl ( low budget video}
12.Wildflowers
13. Broken Song ( new Jack song) couldn't hear the words
14. Complete History of Punk on the Lower East Side
15. They Always Knew They'd Make it
16.Don't let the Record Company take you out to lunch
17.Wait it Out (Jack's Song)
18. No LSD tonight
19. Creeping Brain Pictures as Jeff sang Back when I was 4, which people requested, then decided it didn't make it and sang Creeping Brain
20. Encore: Seattle
21. Pounds--a poem
22. Another Girl
23. Time Machine
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Dav Site Admin
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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Seems like a cool show, i hope i can get me a vinyl, fingers crossed... _________________ http://uberaffe.bandcamp.com |
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hamlet

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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:40 am Post subject: |
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I tried to upload some pictures but they didn't show up. |
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Dav Site Admin
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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Did you use the "upload a picture" fonction ? it's right under the post a reply area, it seems to work. _________________ http://uberaffe.bandcamp.com |
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hamlet

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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I did, and its worked before, but not now. I sent two pictures to your e-mail address. Maybe you can post them. |
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Dav Site Admin
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hamlet

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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:30 am Post subject: |
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The first one is Joie DeVivre, original Crass band member, and author of Fun in the Oven. The second is the band and the crowd. Thanks Dave! |
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terricloth

Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 189 Location: westchester, NY
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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i am so mad i was to broke to attend. amazing setlist. arg. _________________ dont't crap out |
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Will Oldham Site Admin

Joined: 14 Dec 2005 Posts: 1782 Location: Kent, England
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Dav wrote: | Seems like a cool show, i hope i can get me a vinyl, fingers crossed... |
as soon as i saw this i hunted one down on ebay _________________
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hamlet

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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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This is the crowd: diversity in ethnicity and ages, most are in rapt attention but one older guy yawns (it's past his bedtime?) Professor Louie, Jeff's fantastic rapper uncle, is under the "N" in the Drinks sign on the wall.T shirt worn by long haired guy at center has Mr. Natural, R. Crumbs' cosmic "guru" on it who says it' s all insane.
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hamlet

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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: Jeff and Helen |
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Jeffrey Lewis and Helen Schreiner. booth dressed simply in white like the album cover., opposite the punk cliché of black,
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morgan

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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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direct link _________________ "It's all easier said than done and it's not even easy to say." |
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hamlet

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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: Jack and Dave |
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Drummer Dave Beauchamp and singer/songwriter bass guitarist Jack Lewis
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hamlet

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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: John Kessel |
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John Kessel joined in on a History of Communism
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